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Anna Wigley

The Fallen Sycamore Leaf

This leaf is a jigsaw piece come loosefrom the month’s quick-woven tapestry:freckled with plum and blackberry,smudged with sunset fire; veinedwith ochreous wood. Perfectly cutfrom its star-point pattern, it keepsits sharp lines in death:like the shadow of a high cheekin an old woman’s face.